20/12/2010

Facebook Tips

Supervise your child’s experience of Facebook – visit the privacy settings
area together and learn how to restrict profile information; the profile previewer is a useful tool that can show you how much information will be seen by other people on Facebook

Check what information your child has entered onto their Facebook profile, for example mobile numbers or e-mail addresses

Make sure your child has retained the default privacy setting that makes the profile invisible in Facebook’s search engine and other search engines such as Google. This is accessible via: Privacy Settings > ‘Applications, games and websites’ > ‘Public search’

Encourage your child or relative to consider the way they connect with other people on Facebook carefully, and to think twice before adding a person they do not know – just as they wouldn’t start conversations with people they don’t know in the street, they shouldn’t do so on Facebook

Ensure you and your child know how to block an individual attempting to
make contact on Facebook – both by looking at the ‘block’ buttons on the
person’s profile and looking at the ‘block lists’ feature in your privacy settings area